Company News: North America

News on transmission equipment and service providers from North America

• Ørsted and PSEG sign EPC for 1.1 GW offshore project

  April 26, 2022
  Denmark’s Ørsted and US-based Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) have signed engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for the 1,100 MW Ocean Wind 1 project off New Jersey with Jingoli Power LLC and Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company Inc.

• Broad Reach procures six BESS projects in Texas [free access]

  April 20, 2022
  Houston-based developer Broad Reach Power LLC announced the procurement of 900 MWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) for six new standalone projects in Texas from Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), a Chinese battery manufacturer.

• PowerFlex inks agreements with Hydro One to develop DER solutions in Ontario

  April 4, 2022
  PowerFlex, a subsidiary of EDF Renewables, and Hydro One Limited have announced a collaboration to develop Distributed Energy Resources (DER) solutions for the Ontario market.

• GE Grid Solutions consortium bags EPC contract for Empire Wind project

  March 28, 2022
  A consortium of GE's Grid Solutions and BOND Civil & Utility Construction were awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for onshore and offshore high-voltage equipment,including an onshore substation that will connect the 816-MW Empire Wind project to the New York power grid.

• Bridgelink partners with Eos Energy to order up to 500 MWh of energy storage systems

  March 9, 2022
  New Jersey-based Eos Energy Enterprises Inc announced that it has signed a master supply agreement withBridgelink Commodities LLC, a subsidiary of renewable developer Bridgelink Investments LLC, allowing the latter to purchase 240 MWh of zinc-based systems for its energy storage projects in Texas.

• Taihan Cable’s US subsidiary wins ultra-high-voltage grid project in California

  March 8, 2022
  South Korean company Taihan Cable & Solution has announced that its US subsidiary Taihan Electric USA has won a KRW60 billion (USD49 million) ultra-high-voltage power grid supply project in California.

• Schneider Electric and Cisco to build Egypt’s smart grid

  March 7, 2022
  France-based Schneider Electric and US-headquartered Cisco are working together to build Egypt’s largest smart grid—which will utilise artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT) technology to manage and support the integration of traditional and renewable energy sources.

• MRC Global Norway wins contract for Sunrise Wind offshore project

  February 23, 2022
  Aker Solutions AS has awarded MRC Global Norway AS with a contract to provide the complete scope of valves, instrumentation, piping, tubing, and fittings for the 924 MW Sunrise Wind offshore project in the US.

• Georgia Power and Form Energy to collaborate for energy storage project

  February 10, 2022
  Georgia Power and Massachusetts-based Form Energy announced a collaboration to develop a 15 MW/1,500 MWh energy storage project using a novel iron-air-exchange flow battery technology.

• Honeywell and FREYR Battery ink agreement to boost energy storage

  January 19, 2022
  North Carolina-based Honeywell International Inc. and Norway-based FREYR Battery have signed an agreement, under which Honeywell will purchase 19 GWh of FREYR battery cells from 2023 through 2030 for a variety of energy storage system applications.

• Prysmian wins US offshore wind cable contracts worth USD900 million

  December 21, 2021
  Vineyard Wind, a joint venture (JV) between Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), has awarded two offshore wind farm cable contracts worth a total of almost USD900 million to Prysmian, an Italian subsea power cable manufacturer.

• CPUC approves SCE’s USD1.2 billion energy storage contract to Ameresco

  December 21, 2021
  The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved a USD1.2 billion energy storage contract awarded by Southern California Edison (SCE)—the largest subsidiary of Edison International, to Ameresco, a Massachusetts-based renewable energy and energy efficiency company.

• Ameresco selects FlexGen for 2.1 GWh BESS in California

  December 7, 2021
  Ameresco, a clean energy solutions firm, has selected FlexGen to deliver battery energy storage system (BESS) technology and software for a portfolio of projects with aggregate capacity of 537.5 MW/2,150 MWh across three sites in southern California.

• DEME Offshore-Prysmian consortium bag CVOW contract from Dominion Energy

  November 8, 2021
  DEME Offshore US LLC (DEME Offshore), the world's largest offshore wind farm contractor, announced that it has won a USD1.1 billion-plus Balance of Plant (BoP) contract in a consortium with Prysmian Powerlink for the construction of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, from Dominion Energy Virginia—a subsidiary of Dominion Energy Inc.

• Siemens Energy, Aker Solutions bag first US offshore wind grid connection

  October 27, 2021
  Siemens Energy, in a consortium with Aker Solutions, has been awarded its first offshore grid connection project in the US. The company will supply the high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system to bring green energy from 924 MW Sunrise Wind—New York’s first utility-scale offshore wind project, to the mainland.

• GE Research and Prolec GE to install world's first flexible transformer in Mississippi

  October 20, 2021
  Cooperative Energy has teamed up with GE Research and Prolec GE to develop and install the world's first flexible large power transformer at its major substation in Columbia, Mississippi. This substation is part of a service network that serves power to over half a million consumers in Mississippi.

• SB Energy inks 2 GWh iron flow battery agreement with ESS Inc

  October 4, 2021
  SB Energy, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group, has inked a framework agreement with Oregon-based ESS Inc for the deployment of 2 GWh of iron electrolyte flow battery systems to complement solar power projects in Texas and California through 2026.

• Siemens Energy to provide STATCOMs to LS Power Grid California

  September 23, 2021
  Siemens Energy will provide four static synchronous compensators (STATCOM) for LS Power Grid California, LLC’s (LS Power) substation projects in California.

• TDI selects NKT as turnkey supplier for CHPE project, US

  September 22, 2021
  Transmission Developers Inc. (TDI) has entered into an exclusive preferred supplier agreement (PSA) with NKT for delivery of the power cable system for the Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE) project in the US.

• SYL Battery bags contract for BESS project in California [free access]

  September 22, 2021
  US independent power producer (IPP) Broad Reach Power has placed an order for battery energy storage system (BESS) equipment with Chinese company SYL Battery for a grid-scale project in California.